KNAP, _s._ A slight stroke, S.

_Ramsay._

KNAPE, _s._

1. A servant.

_Douglas._

2. As equivalent to _valet_.

_Douglas._

A. S. _cnapa_, Teut. _knape_, puer, servus.

~Knappare~, _s._ A boor.

_Douglas._

KNAPPARTS, _s. pl._ Heath pease, S. B.

Teut. _knappen_, mandere, and _worte_, radix.

KNAPPEL, _s._ Oak for staves, brought from Memel, Dantzick, &c, S.

_Acts Cha. II._

Isl. _knapp-r_, rigidus, q. hard wood.

KNAPPISH, _adj._ Tart, snappish.

Teut. _knapp-en_, to bite.

_Z. Boyd._

KNAPSCHA, KNAPISHAY, KNAPSKALL, _s._ A headpiece.

_Stat. Rob. I._

Su. G. _knape_, a servant, and _skal_, a sh.e.l.l, a covering.

_To_ KNASH, _v. a._ To gnaw.

_Watson._

Isl. _knatsk-a_, arrodo.

_To_ KNAW, KNAWE, _v. a._ To know.

A. S. _cnaw-an_, id.

_Wyntown._

KNAW, KNAWE, KNAIE, _s._

1. A male child.

_Wyntown._

2. A male under age.

_Barbour._

3. A male servant.

_Wyntown._

4. A man in an inferior rank.

V. ~Knape~.

_Bannatyne Poems._

~Knawship~, ~Knaveship~, _of a mill_, the dues given by those who have grain ground, for paying the servants in a mill, vulgarly _kneeship_, S.

_Erskine._

Teut. _knaep-schaep_, servitus.

KNECHT, KNYCHT, _s._

1. A common soldier.

_Douglas._

2. A commander.

_Douglas._

Franc. _knecht_, A. S. _cneoht_, a boy, a servant.

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